What I Thought While on the Pot: Blame me for AIDS

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Blame me for AIDS

I've been watching this show on ABC. It's a special about the epidemic of AIDS in Black America. They went over how the spread of AIDS came about and why it's not slowing down. They said it had to do with drug use, with black people being more likely to have multiple partners than white people, with men having sex with other men and then not telling their women partners, and by heterosexual sex with people who never knew they were infected. Ok ok...so if you had unprotected sex with 20 guys in the last 5 years, good luck trying to find out how you got it or how they got it.
Some of the arguments that some of the black people on the show had were that the reason HIV spreads among some black communities is because there is no federal money going to a program that supplies drug users with clean needles. What the fuck did you just say? Here's an idea: Just say no, asshole!!
This one woman went on to say that the spread of HIV/AIDS among black people was white people's fault. Come again? She said that if it were as big a problem among white people, that something would have been done about it along time ago. Maybe so. She went on to talk about these white activists back in the early 90s that organized large protests about HIV/AIDS among white gay men. She says that there have been no white activists that went out and talked about HIV/AIDS among gay black men. When asked why white people should bring up the problem of black gay men spreading HIV, they went into this long segment about how it's improper and dishonorable in the black community to admit you're a gay black man. Again...that's MY fault how?
Ok ok I get it now. There are some people that want do drugs and use dirty needles then they want to go and have unprotected sex with as many partners as they can and none of them give a goddamned shit about spreading HIV/AIDS until one of them GETS it and then they want to blame ME for it? I've seen episodes of Jerry Springer where they have a black woman on the show who brings 8 or 10 guys on the show to test them to see who the father of her kid is. Usually, NONE of those guys are the father!! You are NOT the father!! That means she had unprotected sex with so many guys in such a short time span that she can't even remember them all. Obviously this is an extreme case, but it does happen as you can see. And it's not a race specific issue. Women having sex with dozens of men and not knowing who the father could be is something that happens with women of all races.
I don't blame black people for me being fat...but I could. It's often argued by African American activists that African Americans are paid less than white people. Fast food places offer cheap food which caters to people who make very little money and the black people who make very little money buy their food thereby providing the means by which these fast food chains grew and continue to grow and are now on every street corner in American providing convenience to millions of fat white Americans. See...it's black people's fat that I'm fat. But I don't blame them. I don't have to eat fast food. I could eat healthier. Now after you just read that paragraph, do you see how absurd that arguement is?
By the same token that I could choose to eat healthier, people COULD choose to use a condom. They COULD choose to not do drugs. If they choose to use drugs, they COULD choose to not use a dirty needles. Some people argue that they can't afford clean needles. Oh but they can afford the drugs though...so shut the fuck up. They COULD choose to not have sex at all. However, the choices they have made are what have put them in the situation they are in now with having HIV/AIDS. Take some fucking responsiblity. Don't blame me for you being stupid, stupid. I'm hungry. I think I'll go to Taco Bell now and get about 10 tacos and maybe some burritos and get fatter.

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